K2 Incense Information

Category: K2 Incense News Archive June

  • Newton County Sheriff cracks down on stores that sell K2 incense

    NEWTON COUNTY – Sheriff Joe Walker whistled as he walked into the Get-n-Go Market in Newton County, but that doesn’t mean he’s not serious.

    “What we’re trying to do is find and get these bath salts and the K2 stuff out of these stores,” Sheriff Walker said. “Kids are gettting on this stuff. They don’t know what they’re doing”.

    Sheriff Walker and his deputies seized thousands of dollars worth of K2 incense, Bath Salts and paraphernalia from three convenience stores on Tuesday.  But he’s not stopping there.  He’s determined to keep raiding stores until all of the synthetic drugs are gone.

    “If you got it, you better get it out of your store, because I’m coming,” said Sheriff Walker.

    The Department of State Health Services banned K2 and similar drugs on April 22nd.  There is no statewide ban on Bath Salts.

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  • ‘Bath Salts’ Spark Powerful Paranoia, Doctors Say

    GREENSBURG, Ind. — An emerging drug known as bath salts is gaining popularity in Indiana, where police and doctors are dealing with users suffering from powerful delusions.The stimulant, which mimics the high of methamphetamine and cocaine, is legally sold in powder form under a variety of names, including Diesel, Ivory Wave, Blue Magic, Cloud 9 and White Lightning, mostly at head shops, online and at gas stations.The packets typically cost between $20 and $50 each and are marketed as bath salts, insect repellent or plant fertilizer. This is similar as K2 incense is to marijuana.

    The drug can be snorted, injected or smoked, producing a high, but with serious side effects, including severe paranoia.”We had a report here a few weeks back, (the person using bath salts) thought some monkeys were in his trees and he was going to go outside and shoot them out of the trees,” said Decatur County Sheriff Gregory Allen.

    source:  theindy

  • Bath Salts Abuse Gives Legit Businesses a Dirty Name

     

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    so called "bath salts"- not your tridational bath salts.

     

    by Craig Guillot Jun 14 2011
    States scramble to ban components of illegal drugs marketed as “bath salts” as more and more problems emerge from their use, while legitimate bath-salts makers find sales taking a negative plunge.

    At Crossroads Corner store in Salem, Missouri, owner John Watson often identifies those looking to get high from so-called “bath salts.” They’re jittery, nervous, and usually ask if the salts he carries are “the stuff.”

    That “stuff” is receiving attention from both medical professionals who are seeing increased health problems caused by snorting or smoking the compound and from legislators who are working to get it banned from the marketplace.

    Watson doesn’t deal in the products, and he doesn’t like the fact that shady companies are making potent legal drugs and marketing them as “bath salts.” According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, people are snorting, eating, and injecting these products to achieve some of the same effects as meth or cocaine.

    In the past year, police nationwide attribute a growing number of violent incidents to bath salts. There was the murder-suicide in Seattle, a high-speed chase in North Carolina, and the man dressed in women’s lingerie who killed a goat in West Virginia. Lawmakers are struggling to keep pace. Ten states this year passed legislation banning the drug, and 24 others—including New York earlier this month—used executive orders to stop sales. Two Pennsylvania congressmen are seeking federal legislation to do the same.